"Oh, for the love of..." Lucifer made a dramatic shout when they entered the throne room and saw a very familiar pair of eyes watching him with disgust and concealed fear. "You have gotta be shitting me!"

"You guys do know that the child is supposed to inherit the parent's throne and not the other way around, right?" Lucifer mocked, yapping and stalling because he had no idea how he was going to go past Rowena. Last time he confronted her, she was smoking hot. Literally. He burned her body to crisp, and still she managed to came back.

"Silence! Show some respect for our Queen!" Caym scolded and Lucifer throught the guy was either delusional or had some pretty large balls if he throught Lucifer was the weaker one here.

"You do know I can just kill you, right? And she wouldn't be able to stop me. Oh, oh, I can do worse. I can fucking cure you. See how you like being a pitiful human for a change." Lucifer snapped at him, hitting a little to close to home with his own words, but nobody really cared.

"Enough!" The witch screamed, her eyes glowing purple and she threw her hand forward making purple tendrils rise up, tying around Lucifer's hands and pulling him down, making him drop to his knees. "You! You vile sack of... How? How are you still alive?!"

Oh, she was pissed. Lucifer knew he had two options here. Explain himself and plead his case, hoping she will believe that he only wanted to stop his father or... Piss her off even more. Now, which option would the old Lucifer choose?

She was powerful, much more then she was last time he saw her, and if he was a full blown archangel, their powers would almost be equally matched, which was kind of alarming, but Lucifer wasn't an archangel at full power, now was he? No... His powers, or Jack's powers, even weakened as they are now, were no match for Rowena and her little hocus pocus.

So, with a deep intake of air, Lucifer pulled on his restraints, his eyes almost giving a golden glow before Jack concealed it with blood red and the tendrils snapped, vanishing as he rose back on his feet. Jack's wings flashed as shadows behind him and he stood tall and proud in a clear display of power.

Rowena was fuming.

"Cease him!" She yelled and a bunch of demons rushed his way, and Lucifer yawned, flipped his hand and send them flying to a nearby wall. The witch was clearly pissed and she started chanting something, but Lucifer simply snapped his fingers and she flinched, gasping loudly with her eyes going incredibly wide. When it became obvious that he didn't actually do anything aside from creating a sound with his fingers, he started laughing and Rowena turned red in the face.

"Oh, look at the pretty Red Queen. I am surprised she didn't scream 'Off with their heads!', ha, am I right?" Lucifer turned to Castiel who was left far behind and it was that particular action that drew Rowena's eyes to the angel as well. Confusion flashed upon her face as her look posed many questions, but for now, she remained speechless.

"Listen, Red. I can stand here all day and have a pissing contest with you, which I am sure I would win, cuz guess what?! ~I am beeettterrrr then yoooou.~ And I have a dick and you don't. But I am sort of on a time schedule and oh! look at the time, it is running out. So be a doll and just let us pick up what we need and we'll be outta your hair, alright?"

"What... How... How are you alive?" Rowena asked staring at them, her voice shaking a bit. Lucifer on his part became a bit more serious, his brows drawn in a light frown. He licked his lips before deciding how to answer that.

"Billie brought me back." He said before he could stop himself. It was actually Jack speaking, so it wasn't a lie. "She brought me back to stop Chuck from tearing down this world."

Rowena's own frown deepened. Out of all the people Bills could choose from, Lucifer being the best choice? Didn't seem plausible. But then again, which one of them would be more driven to stick it to the man, then the cast down son? No lack of motivation there, she supposed.

"And what is it that you require of Hell?" She asked. Truth was, Rowena was enjoying her new position and wouldn't relinquish the power of all of hell's souls that easily. She would rather lead them to stop God then give them to someone else to lead.

"Of Hell? Nothing. We're here to pick up Jack's body, one which this nincompoop left here." Lucifer said motioning to Castiel, making the angel roll his eyes at him and open his mouth to defend his actions. But before he could say anything, Rowena cut in.

"The boy's body? Whatever for?"

"To bring him back, of course. You see, I know a hefty little spell that can bring him back, whole of him."

With a mention of a spell, Rowena's eyes sparked up and Lucifer knew he had her hooked.

"Tell you what. You clear the room for us to go get that body and when the time comes to bring the boy back... You'll get front row seats. Can even bring a few of your demons along too." Of course, Lucifer was no fool nor a ticket salesman, he knew well that by the time they will be ready for Jack to inhabit his own body, Chuck would be down upon them like a hurricane and he could use some backup.

Rowena stared at him for a good few minutes before turning her gaze upon the angel, shooting him a questioning look. Castiel, the angel so done with all the bullshit, spoke freely.

"I do not trust him either..." Lucifer cut in.

"Oh, is this fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me?" But was ignored.

"... But if anyone can bring Jack back, it is him. He is his biological father and as such has much more genetic and grace-like connections that could ensure such a spell to work."

"And the..." Rowena tried, but Lucifer cut her off.

"The Winchesters can't know. They are under the spotlight right now, Daddy dearest watching them like a hawk to see what moronic idea would they come up with next. Best have the dumb and dumber entertain dad while we work in the shadows." There was an abundance of gravity on his voice and a serious plea for understanding in his eyes that struck Rowena, making her believe that if nothing else, he was at least trying to stop Chuck.

Lesser of two evils, right?

Rowena took a moment to consider it all, then nodded and motioned for the path to clear. Lucifer thought for a moment she would have them chaperoned, but then thought better. She was the Queen of Hell now, a demoness herself and a powerful witch on top of that. They will be watched.

Castiel took point as they reached the treasure room and Lucifer followed close behind. The moment he laid his eyes on what remained of Jack's body, he sucked in a shaky breath, his mask slipping gravely for the first time. A look of pure shock and sadness flashed upon his face before he was able to concealed it, and of course Castiel noticed.

But he just squinted his eyes at him, watched him make some lame excuse of how Castiel's hands were a faulty toaster and witnessed as the mask slipped right back on, but said nothing, clearly storing the information for a later use.

Castiel knew that there was definitely something off about Lucifer and the more time he spent with him, the more sure of that he was. But there was something comforting simply radiating from him, something that told him to trust him, to believe he will bring Jack back to him. Hell, there was even something soothing in his blue eyes and something that eased his guilt about contacting Chuck in the first place.

"Alrighty then... Well, pick him up and let's get the hell outta hell." Lucifer said with a fake giddy expression and Castiel frowned in you-don't-really-expect-me-to-carry-the-body-all-through-hell-by-myself look and Lucifer rolled his eyes and dramatically puffed.

"Fine. But I'll only carry it half of the way, capiche?" He commented pointing a finger at Castiel, then sighed and twirled that finger, making the scorched body levitate then with slight movement of his finger, it moved towards the exit. Yeah, must be really heavy for him lifting a finger.

Just as promised, half way through to the exit, Lucifer stopped and when Cas gave him a questioning look, complete with his trade mark head-tilt-eyes-squint, Lucifer motioned the body near him and the angel only had a moment to extend his arms before the body fell in his embrace.

"Oh, wow. You sure are picking up a few tricks from the guys, you got Sam's bitch face down to the teeth." Lucifer commented before glancing around a corridor.

"What are you looking for?"

"You know, there is something I gotta check out real quick, why don't you... Wait right here?" Lucifer said, and Cas was about to object loudly but before he even got a chance, Lucifer vanished, leaving Cas to only slump his shoulders in defeat as he let out the breath.

"Fuck!"